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October 23, 2006

Pull off my shoes

Some people say I'm about to lose my senseHowlin' like a tomcat sittin' on the fenceCallin' for my baby high and lowSearchin' for that girl, 'cause I love her soLookin' at the moon up in the skyThinkin' about that girl and I almost cry ...

Lines from what probably rates as my favourite piece of music in the whole entire wide complete world. I mean, there are several that rank up there, but if you twisted my arm and asked me to pick one, I think I'd choose this.

What are the next few lines? Any other lines? What's the song? Which truly great 1980s band did a rocking cover of it on one of their albums, and what was that album called? (It's their version that makes it my favourite).

Usual: no Google and the like.

(First in an occasional series).

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Update: Due to the overwhelming number of queries I've got about this (zero), I shall now reveal the answers.

This is excerpted from "Barefoot Rock". The next few lines are:

When I get home, I'm gonna pull off my shoesGet on the floor, dance away my bluesAh-ha, and do the barefoot rockAh-ha, and do the barefoot rockAh-ha, do the barefoot rockI'm gonna dance away all my blues.

This is probably not the right place for this, but I couldn't find your email address anywhere. Just wanted to say that I am great fan of your columns (earlier on Rediff and now on mid-day.com). For the past few months the links to your columns on mid-day.com have been broken. I could not find any place to email mid-day about this.Hopefully you can get someone to rectify that.